General: April 2005 Archives
TIPPINST-Decided to give the site a make over. It was a fun experience trying to remember how to use adobe photoshop and movable type style sheet basics.
The file you need to work with is stylesheet in my case the background statement under #banner was updated as follows
background:#216139 url("http://www.irishsilicon.com/archives/tile.jpg") repeat;
TIPPINST -The 2nd phase of the community broadband scheme is coming to a close and from talking to various people at public meetings it seems that there is a very strong interest in Tipperary. Neighbouring communities such as Holycross, Kilcommon, Doon, Borrisoleigh are all in the process of finalising applications. County wide I would estimate that there are 15 - 20 community groups that are interested.
When you compare this to phase 1 which had 33 groups across the whole country it really highlights the strong interest in broadband. Interest in Upperchurch is quiet high when compared to some other communities, I think this is in part to the IT centre in the local school which has been providing email, ECDL, internet training for the past 4 years as of last year over 300 people had passed through their doors. Pretty impressive for a rural hinterland community.
These community schemes I think are a good inniative as its puts the onus on the shoulders of the community to do something about it. Having a broadband coordinator for the area is also an immense help as they can assist and drive the scheme.
It look like by September we will have 512K up and down using Wi-fi, roll on the summer !
TIPPINST - I am trying to decide on a light weight pda that has the following properties
1- Light weight with a keyboard
2 - supports real player, java
3 - GPRS, 802.11b, Irda, Bluetooth
4 - colour screen, camera
5 - fast boot up
Bernie uses a nokia communicator 9500 which fulfills most of these requirements but I am interested to see if there are alternatives out there.
A pda that caught my attention was the Sharp Zaurus sl-cl 1000. We have the original Sharp Zaurus here in TIPPINST and we like them.
The features are as follows
# 416MHz Intel XScale PXA270
# 64MB of SDRAM and 16MB of Flash ROM
# integrated 128MB User Flash
# Linux 2.4.20 (Sharp ROM 1.45 JP)
# 3.7inch 640 x 480 LCD with 65k colors (backlit)
# QWERTY keypad with a five-way navigator control
# Infrared port
# 1 SD, 1 CF slot (for WLAN, Bluetooth etc.)
# USB cable (can be used as an USB hard disk drive)
# Stereo headphone connector
# Syncs with Macintosh through ZMacSync, Linux and PC
# Weight: ca. 278g
# Dimensions: ca. 124 x 87 x 25 mm
# Battery: 3.7V, 1800mAh LiIon
# Operation time: approx. 7h
Handheld-linux.com a germany company import them from Japan and tweak them so that they have an english interface.
Any suggestions would be welcome
TIPPINST- Gary Brolsam is an internet celebrity thanks to his video of lip synching to a Romanian techno song entitled, “Dragostea Din Tei”, or the English-translated, “Love Among the Linden Trees.”
It is a pure uninhibited performance, guaranteed to make you smile.
TIPPINST- We are pleased to announce that we have identified a broadband provider who will be in a position to bring broadband to the Upperchurch-Drombane area. We received a strong level of interest from people who were interested in broadband. The North Tipperary Broadband Coordinator provided us with a list of potential broadband companies and we evaluated these company’s broadband products so as to identify a broadband service that would be suitable for the locality.
The criteria used for evaluating these broadband services included amongst others, cost, speed, technology, customer support and expertise. The broadband provider chosen is a local Tipperary company called Premier broadband (www.premierbroadband.net). The details of their service is as follows:
Cost domestic €29.99 per month (includes VAT), installation €200 (includes VAT)
Connection Speed 512K up, 512 down
Technology Wi-fi (Wireless)
Term of contract 3 month contract for domestic users
Customer Support Telephone support 24/7
We will now be submitting the list of interested people to the North Tipp broadband Coordinator (Anthony O’Reilly) this Friday (15th of April 05). Premier broadband will be carrying out a survey of the area shortly to identify the equipment required to bring broadband to the interested people. It is envisaged that broadband will roll out over the summer months.
We would like to thank all people who expressed an interest in acquiring broadband, with out your interest this would not have been possible.
I had to do a double take on my website today as I noticed a google ad looking for softball players for a dublin team.
The page is being hosted on craigslist.org. This a new offshoot for advertising, I can see some interesting variations
e.g. Do you have Irish Grandparents ? international soccer players apply here
I am the proud (temporary) owner of 8 IPOD shuffles that will be up for grabs at Robocode 05.
Robocode is taking place this Thursday at Tipperay Institute and the final preparations are in full swing. We have more prizes and more competitions taking place this year. But you will have to wait until Thursday to discover what the extra "events" are.
Looking forward to meeting you all there.
Liam
We will be distributing information to people who we think may be interested in broadband. If you don't receive an information leaflet, they will be available in the following shops: O'Dwyers, Ryans and Fahy's of the metal bridge.
We have until Wed April 13th to finalise our list of people who are interested in broadband. The process after that will be as follows.
1 - The list of people who are interested will be provided to the North Tipp broadband coordinator.
2. - The North Tipp coordinator will identify a list of suitable broadband providers.
3- We will then hold discussions with the various broadband providers so as to identify a suitable provider.
4- Once we are happy with the provider , their service, pricing, support etc we will then proceed with the application.
5- At this point the identified broadband provider will carry out an initial survey so as to indentify what amount of equipment will be required to provide broadband to all interested people.
6 - The broadband provider will then complete a govt application form (called G1) which identifies what equipment will be required, suitable sites, planning issues if any as well as associated costs. This form will be co signed by the provider and the Upperchurch Drombane Broadband Scheme committee.
7 - If the application is succesful a roll out of the service will commence within ( 2 -3 months approx) At this stage people who are interested will be asked to take out a subscription to the service before roll out begins.
